Career Planning For Your Career Development Plan

Career Planning is an important part of your career management process as it involves being totally honest with yourself about where your career is going. Find out about the Best Careers 2010.

You need to ask a number of questions to do with careers planning and once you have them answered, you will be able to outline a career development plan that will guide you throughout your career.

Benefits of My Personal Career Development Programme

My Career Development Programme will provide you with the answers and personal career planning support you need to find a new job quickly or ensure that your career is progressing in the right direction.

If you are experiencing major change or restructuring or are affected by redundancy or downsizing, you will benefit from the pragmatic, professional advice and support that I will personally provide, based on my own extensive background in business. Not only will you get the answers you need, but you also get personal help with all of the aspects of finding a new job, which will get a result for you much sooner than you might think. And if getting back into a job more quickly is something that you would appreciate, then this programme is for you. Read on...

My career planning programme naturally includes CV or resume writing from scratch if necessary, cover letter writing, interview preparation and learning the most effective self-marketing techniques (talking about your strengths and weaknesses, networking with contacts and meeting people who can help), all the way through to gaining the advantage in any kind of interview.

Included Are:

Career Coaching

• Clarify Your Career Goals
  
  
• Focus On Your Goals
  
  
• Create Dynamic Action Plan
  
  
• Discover Your Unique Abilities
  
  
• Have Your CV Written For You By Me
  
  
• Interview Skill Coaching
  
  
• 6 Months Personal Mentoring
  
  
• Unlimited Telephone Support For You
  
  
• Details...

You can rely on my expertise as a business leader, owner and director which covers financial services, manufacturing including food production, pharmaceuticals, engineering and retail, plus sales and marketing.

Throughout my career, I have worked one-on-one with hundreds of people from all types of jobs and from the most senior to the most junior, so I am 100% confident that I can make the difference that you need to get you back on track and earning again fast!

It's quite simple to create your own personalized career development programme, go to Career Development for all the details.

Over the next set of pages we will show you what questions to ask and give you some prompts to guide you in answering them for your own career planning purposes. Needless to say, these questions are general in nature, because they apply to everyone doing any type of job, but you will know what needs to be done to customize them for yourself.

6 Important Career Planning Questions

1. Do you know where you’re going?
   

2. Do you know how you’ll get there?
   

3. Are you making the most of your options?
   

4. Does anyone know about you?
   

5. What do others think about you?
   

6. How do you measure your impact?
   
   

Answering The First Question:

Do you know where you’re going?

• I know what position I want next.

  In my organization, the next natural progression for my career would be to work towards --- (fill this in yourself).
  

• I have a five-year plan for my career based on my own informal picture of the market.

  Other people tend to move into jobs like this (--- fill the gaps yourself) and I know whether that is a good direction for me personally.
  

• I have long-range goals for my career.

  By considering my career development plan over a long period, say 10 years, I know where I would like to get to. Using Steven Covey's principle of 'Starting With The End In Mind' I am able to work back from that point to determine my next steps.
  

• I have long-range goals for my personal life.

  These goals include health, family, spiritual, financial and social goals. Arriving at a balance of these goals provides greatest satisfaction and personal fulfillment.
  

• I know what skills or new knowledge will be required to progress in my job and my company.

  Taking careers planning issues into account plus current training and technology, I am certain of not only what I will need, but also HOW to achieve these skills.
  
  

Answering the second question continues on the next page in Career Planning Pt. 2

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